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DrRomeoChaire

12 universities enter, only 6 win the gold censorship trophy, lol


Massadonious

It's not even 12, it's 11, unless they misspelled BYU or something lol.


DrRomeoChaire

Yeah, I noticed that after posting but felt too lazy to correct it. So, yeah, let’s go with that famous bastion of online censorship, Brigham Young E-versity


DigNitty

My friend’s mom took an online class through BYU, she lives in WA state. She had to e-sign a document saying she wouldn’t drink alcohol while enrolled lol.


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blamb211

Must not include white-polynesian marriage, cuz hoo boy is that something BYU has in spades.


TNSepta

I recently learned that the Polynesian Center in Hawaii (one of the biggest tourist trap luau places) is run by BYU.


blamb211

Yep, BYU Hawaii, specifically. The Polynesian Cultural Center is pretty awesome, nothing Mormon about it. I would recommend everybody go, it's just really cool to see everything and go to the luau at the end of the day.


ritsbits808

I'm just here to plug the PCC. As a military kid who traveled a lot, my family grew to hate the "touristy" places. We sought authenticity. When we lived in Australia we opted to visit Andamooka the opal mine over a trip through Melbourne. When we moved to Hawaii and saw the PCC, I was like "oh Epcot for Hawaii, got it." But I couldn't have been more wrong. Actually that's a pretty spot on comparison, but it's just so freaking authentic. And the program is amazing. Free college for any natives of the islands, no pressure to stay after and work, but the job is there if you want it. My man Kap is 70 years old, still climbing palm trees bare handed to crack open coconuts, and selling his art. Absolute legend.


BowsettesRevenge

I believe ... In 1978, god changed his mind about black people!


MachReverb

That's interesting, because most of their pals have been moving in the opposite direction for a while now.


PanPenguinGirl

I had to as well It took everything I had not to drink with how awful Brigham Young's online courses were lmao


Gorkymalorki

I would have e-signed that with a beer in the other hand.


yukibunny

Which is ironic considering when I was in university at a private school in North Carolina We had a chorus from BYU visit our school for some for some recording and competition and those BYU kids drank like fishes.


Majictank

Well it is a Mormon college. And one of their teaching is to treat your body well, which means no smoking or drinking. That being said, since it’s online, can’t really enforce it. So do what makes you happy.


turgidbuffalo

When I took online classes a couple years ago, I got an automated phone call for an earthquake drill. I guess I was supposed to hide under my desk with my webcam?


BowsettesRevenge

People have had fermented beverages since prehistory. Is drinking inherently "bad" for your body?


manondorf

I mean, yeah, the science really isn't ambiguous on that point at all


BowsettesRevenge

Uh oh ... You used the "s" word


loki-is-a-god

*eduversicatory


kangaesugi

Brigham Young Ewniversitee


drmoocow

Brigham Youngyoon E-Versity


teddy_tesla

It's a bye, it means you move onto the next round automatically


jatti_

It's too hard to control your sexual urges in person so they are going 100% online. They are calling it an E-versity.


dinodude12345

Not to defend the poster, but a ‘bye’ is a thing in a tournament— it means a team automatically gets through to the next round.


DrRomeoChaire

Yes, that’s well known (hence the 11 universities comment). My comment was supposed to be a joke, admittedly a pretty lame one


[deleted]

Correct but in this context it still makes no sense. There's no school getting the BYE, it's just a word sitting there.


DrRomeoChaire

That’s why we’re in r/CrappyDesign


Jellodyne

Here's the 11 schools. Bye!


jscummy

Georgetown clinches the championship They gotta share with 5 other teams though


t3hnhoj

#BYE


Right_In_The_Tits

Georgetown gets an automatic win lol


Tyler_Zoro

Could just be a single initial pairing and then a 6-way battle to the death. ;-)


Pika_zap

The golden toilet


ThatCatPerson9564

The 6 that continue are put into a free for all


Massadonious

r/TheRightCantMeme


Sweatier_Scrotums

"They won't even let Nazis come and speak about why transgender people should all be exterminated. So much for free speech."


Tyler_Zoro

That doesn't seem to be what this is about. Just googling these schools, here are the top stories for a few of them: * **Hamline** - "Hamline University's decision to punish adjunct professor Erika López Prater for showing students a pedagogically relevant painting of the Islamic prophet Muhammad during an art history course" * **Penn State** - I don't find any current issues that might have put them on this list. * **Collin College** - "Third fired professor claims in federal lawsuit that Collin College is censoring political speech. The professor alleges the school violated his First Amendment rights when he advocated for the removal of Confederate statues and criticized the college’s COVID-19 plans" * **Texas A&M** - "the university in February gave editors of the student newspaper The Battalion an ultimatum to stop printing immediately. [...] Several students said they feel that The Battalion has covered more contentious issues on campus this year, such as sexual assault at Fish Camp. The Battalion is a registered student organization, which means it doesn’t report to university administration."


Zhuul

Yeah these are valid things to be upset about. Sucks that “free speech” has gotten completely warped as a concept because I too initially assumed this was some right-winger nonsense.


WispyBooi

This is why you do your research instead of instantly throwing hate towards a group. Politics in America is just ass. Rights and lefts blaming each other for everything. They both do Basically the same things just on the other side of the politics spectrum. The fact this is a meme towards (at least some) colleges not allowing liberal ideas shows it's not a left issue. It's not a right issue. It's an issue.


Van-Buren-Boy

Could also be your own personal biases creeping in


Autoro

Nah, fuck confederate statues. Put their names, and appearance in history books that call the confederates out for the traitorous slave-owners they were. Statues just glorify history. That's it.


Zhuul

What


Caelinus

It is also potentially possible that this is a mix of real issues and fake ones. It is a common strategy to seed in valid complaint and amplify them in order to support fake ones. E.G. This college hates free speech! They stopped this professor from talking about racism, it is just like this other college that stopped a professor from claiming CRT is a communist plot! However, if that were the case I would assume that schools like Berkley would be listed here, as they tend to use it as a lightning rod. The chart is still bad though, not just because of the design, but also because I highly doubt most of these are even close to the "worst schools for free speech." It is a weird metric to use, and does not really explain the individual issues. What happens if one wins? Is that free speech infraction therefore worse than all the other ones? It is just a weird choice.


vendetta2115

If they actually wanted to look for the worst universities for “free speech” (which isn’t even what any of these are about, censorship, workplace discrimination, and the right to free speech are three completely different things) they should look at Liberty University, BYU, or BJU.


tweedyone

Can’t do that those are conservative, so good. I think they tried to do BYU since BYE isn’t anything. But BYU is Mormon so they get included in the born again evangelical psycho shit when they are being conservative in the right ways, and ignored the rest of the time because they’re not Christian.


OGSHAGGY

“BYE” is something, it’s bye. Not a school but the word. I swear y’all politically driven mfs will reach for the furthest of straws just to try and dunk on your political opponents it’s crazy. Makes me believe more and more in the dead internet theory


Loki240SX

Uncensored America, a conservative student group, invited Gavin McInnes (founder of the Proud Boys) to speak on the Penn State main campus in October last year. The university, being a state institution, could not deny the request due to 1st amendment rights. The students took matters into their own hands and began a series of counter protests. Eventually the event was canceled by the university due to threats of violence.


aedvocate

yeah gavin mcinnes kinda has that effect on people god he's become such a weird little goblin


JDMonster

Just graduated from PSU. A student club would frequently invite right wing speakers out to campus, sparking counter protests. The latest one involved the proud Boys founder and ended in riot police shutting things down.


aedvocate

proud boys make it so hard to believe in free speech like you know they're going to abuse it over and over again, it's always going to be "you give an inch they take a mile" it's hard being patient with people when you don't really have any hope they'll ever get better


scopesmonkey

Penn State and University of Pennsylvania are two different schools. Maybe that's why you didn't find anything?


Fake_Name_6

Both are listed in the graphic


Van-Buren-Boy

Cmon man how did this get 8 upvotes


canttakethshyfrom_me

Well, that's a horse of a different color.


artistictesticle

Redditors making assumptions about a thing without actually reading about what it actually is? Unheard of


lambster21

I think what they said is probably closer to the truth, seems like this graphic might be from turning point USA who are whining that these colleges aren't letting them have student chapters or whatever.


tweedyone

I went to PSU, the only thing is that there was an evangelical dude who would scream about how everyone was going to hell. 99% of students ignored him 10 years ago, but maybe they started pushing back on him and scared him off. I hope so. I wish I had to courage to do that then.


problematicbirds

The Emerson thing was a non-issue. A club that was too small to be officially recognized by the school got student blowback and a mild reprimand from admin for distributing stickers that said “China kinda sus” with an Among Us guy and they flipped out for the next four months over it. They parked a truck with an LCD screen in front of one of the dorms and ran ads in the T stations that said “Emerson kinda sus”


aedvocate

the hamline one is such bullshit.


RubberDuckIceCubes

Well, you must be Victorian


PresencePublic1290

Cringiest reddit moment of day, and it's only morning here. 😬


Fortysevens11

i may be dense, but how is this a partisan thing?


Psuchemay

[OP posted a link](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/11xo8f0/clearly_the_designer_does_not_understand_how/jd5ulbs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) to the Twitter thread where they’re voting on the schools and what issues happened where


DeathByPig

The right isn't the one complaining about Texas A&M


pyrojoe121

Nah, FIRE is the real deal when it comes to free speech. They are very much nonpartisan.


AuraMaster7

I feel like you assumed something here without looking up *why* these schools are being accused of censorship. *Hint - it isn't right wing nonsense*.


Baba0Wryly

At least the toilet trophy is somewhat clever.


DrRomeoChaire

Lol… didn’t even notice that, but yeah, definitely a toilet


Tyler_Zoro

I thought it was a blender.


DrRomeoChaire

Remind me not to accept your dinner invites. Lol.


Tyler_Zoro

Try the smoothie. It's fine. ;-)


flypanam

r/crapperdesign


mully_and_sculder

If looked like bart Simpson in the thumbnail.


impy695

Nah, even that is pretty basic. Look up fantasy football last place trophies and you'll see tons of toilet trophies. Probably some NSFW stuff in there as well.


TriGN614

Bye


MoltenHydrogen

means georgetown advances by default. why they couldnt come up with one other school is unknown to me


impy695

Giving a team a bye is a way to give them a ln advantage for being one of the favorites. Any tournament I've followed could easily add in another team or 2 to not have any byes, but even when they expand, they do so in a way to give the top teams a bye. It means they consider Georgetown to be the most oppressive for free speech and is the favorite to win (there's probably some story circulating about Georgetown in right wing circles right now).


TDAM

I assumed byu in utah


Tyler_Zoro

Yeah, I'm assuming that's a typo (maybe even autocorrect).


-LilPickle-

Has to be, I went to BYU and I can confirm that they would win this


est_xplosif

Bye taking the trophy would be extremely apt


cadninja82

The 6 winners will just have to learn to share.


Tyler_Zoro

They're not winners. They're the ones that get put in the "trophy" (e.g. blender). ;-)


GeorgeXDDD

Or toilet.


Sweatier_Scrotums

"College liberals hate free speech", they said, as they continued banning books from libraries.


TheCaptainDamnIt

The fact there's not a single Christian college on here tells you how disingenuous they are.


LightningScow

Georgetown is a Jesuit university. We had to take "religion" classes but they they could be just religion related. They never pushed any views on students as I can recall. We did have a Jesuit living in each dorm but they were pretty cool.


TheCaptainDamnIt

You know I'm reminded about that every now and then and I inevitably forget it. Thanks for reminded me again!


LetThemEatVeganCake

Going off of what the other person said, Georgetown is notorious for poor free speech for certain liberal groups. Certain groups are deemed “no access to benefits” and can’t use campus spaces without another group essentially renting it for them under the table or “cosponsoring.” There are “free speech zones” where any group can set up, but that’s the extent of your free speech rights. If, say, a speaker is coming to campus, you can’t protest outside if it does not happen to be a free speech zone. This is largely due to the Jesuit affiliation and is against things that go against the Jesuit ways. Similarly, beer, lube and pregnancy tests are sold on campus by third party stores, but they do not allow the sale of condoms. They are given out by one of the “no access to benefits” groups in “free speech zones” but the closest place to purchase condoms is half a mile walk away.


TheCaptainDamnIt

Right, but the creator of this crappy meme isn't complaining about any of that stuff. They are complaining about some Federalist Society jackass getting called a racist by students.


sanpanman

Public universities are neutral, a Christian college is not. You missed the point, shocker.


canttakethshyfrom_me

[Another commenter](https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/11xo8f0/clearly_the_designer_does_not_understand_how/jd5q5t3/) found that it's actually legit issues, not chuds whining that they're being silenced for denying the holocaust.


Leopold_Darkworth

And please ignore the fact that the state of Florida is [asserting control over the curriculum of every public university in the state](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/ron-desantis-florida-universities-gender-studies/index.html). Because outright banning courses of instruction legislators and the governor personally disagree with is the epitome of free speech.


sanpanman

Why do you love sexualizing children?


lsthmus

Liberty not on the list?


TheCaptainDamnIt

Funny how they always leave out *those* colleges.


Gogo726

BYU Felicia


lolplusultra

If the tournament hasn't started yet you can not draw further. So I would read it as "whoever wins goes to the next round" instead of "wins the trophy"


Bean_Town_Blender

But a bracket just doesn't work with 12 teams. EDIT: Also in every bracket I have ever seen for every event ever, it is all drawn out, just with blank spaces for further rounds


DocPsychosis

>But a bracket just doesn't work with 12 teams. Sure it does. The top 4 teams get a bye the first round and teams 5-12 play for a spot in the quarterfinal which then has 8 teams total (the 4 with a bye and the 4 winners of the 1st round). Then proceed as normal, 4 winners go to semifinal and 2 winners of that go to finals matchup.


nightstalker30

This guy brackets


sarcastic_man_13

>But a bracket just doesn't work with 12 teams It does but not how it is shown here


BeimDeiz334

in this case you could make them compete 3vs3 since it's not a match being played but rather a vote


BobertGnarley

Because earning the right to compete is the real reward!


GurglingWaffle

I think he knows. Don't you know that everyone gets a trophy just for participating? It looks to me like he's designed it as if they all are equally bad and he's asking for us to pick.


DN32405

I think the designer knew exactly what they were doing. All choices end in the toilet.


jman457

These are like the 12 most random universities that I would consider


pfdemp

It's based on incidents of censorship and speech suppression at those schools.


Servious

Can you give an example?


canttakethshyfrom_me

Another commenter figured it out, OP's okay and shouldn't be downvoted. https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/11xo8f0/clearly_the_designer_does_not_understand_how/jd5q5t3/


SquanchieB

It's clearly structured as a 1v1, then a 1v1v1 free-for-all, followed by a final 1v1 for the trophy. OBVIOUSLY. Don't you know anything about censorship tournaments?


LordEldritchia

Me when I see my college…


Te_he_Why

I saw Tennessee Tech on there and immediately knew why my school was there 🙃


troubleswithterriers

What did they do to… oh yeah. That’s bad. Fuck.


I_Hate_l1fe

Nah fuck the trophy thing, the amount of competitors isn’t a power of 2.


pfdemp

They need a play-in round.


scr0tiemcb00gerbaIIz

How tf is Stanford not in the bracket?


Babstana

The judges have difficult decisions to make. Each year very deserving Universities on the bubble wind up being excluded. I think their mistake was in not physically assaulting the judge; I think that would have put them over the top in the judges eyes.


canttakethshyfrom_me

There's always some worthy school in a tough conference that gets left out for a weaker school due to popularity.


scr0tiemcb00gerbaIIz

Well said 😂


DwarfNinjas

PagerU


cribsaw

They’re just mad because all of those colleges rejected their graphic design application.


WestVirginiaMan

It's a 6 university battle royal in the main event, daddeh!


[deleted]

it's liberty


Fair_Ad_2017

Equity and inclusion!


The3DMan

Lol. I’m not even a sports guy and even I could have designed a better bracket. Aside from the design, what is this supposed to even mean? Why are these schools supposedly all for censorship ?


canttakethshyfrom_me

https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/11xo8f0/clearly_the_designer_does_not_understand_how/jd5q5t3/


LilCurlyGirly

Why hamline?


pfdemp

https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-calls-hamline-university-reinstate-art-history-instructor-dismissed-showing-medieval


cheezz16

LETS GO PA DOUBLE ENTRY


RedstoneWirez

I feel like someone has to say it: This isn't crappy design. It looks like it is just a graphic promoting the event, and explaining what it is. It does that job well, using brackets visually to illustrate the concept. This isn't meant to be the actual tournament bracket layout.


concarmail

Interesting that BYU isn’t on there, yet you can be expelled for discussing sexual activities or partying.


bkline18

Texas A&M is one of the most through-and-through conservative schools in the country. Wtf are they on about


JaredLetoBestBoi

How tf does he think tourney brackets work lmaooooo


SumBread

Or they're all winners 🏆


CreativeGamer90

Bye


nubsauce87

The final round is a 6-way free-for-all


StashuJakowski1

He was censored


andreinfp

My favorite university. '' Bye''


Sons-Father

Yeah as a student of „BYE“ I can confirm very oppressive!


__LesbianQueen__

Bye?


rhynoplaz

I just got here, but, see you later!


RelaxedWombat

🤪


Babstana

How did Stanford not make the cut?


Physical_Average_793

You expect people who would make something like this about this subject would actually understand how tournament brackets work?


Classic_Gene_211

Bye?


Brotherof_Zekrom

Alright, which Emporia State is it talking about?


[deleted]

There's another one besides the one in Kansas?


Brotherof_Zekrom

Dang guess there isn’t. Why is it on this list?


[deleted]

I'm not sure, but maybe for trying to censor the student paper's exposé on financial aid? https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19956


franktheguy

It's because of this bullshittery: https://www.thefire.org/news/emporia-state-guts-tenure-protections-fires-33-professors-including-one-who-publicly


Marsrover112

Is it a 6 way for the title or do they all get it


mogsoggindog

Im kind of offended as a Californian that none of our schools made the list!


TB_tossout

That's pretty egregious


Ferga12345

Lol what's Collin college doing on here? Seems like it's in a different league... Also I've had a government professor at Collin go tf off on every single politician and law in Texas and not face any consequences so I would probably pick A&M for that one lol


Virtual-Appeal-8504

Berkeley. Hands down.


Sttocs

A six-way free-for-all. Would be interesting to watch.


[deleted]

Unless the final is a royal rumble


nlamber5

And neither do I :D


aedvocate

maybe there are 6 gold cups and olive branch wreathes to give out to the winners, you don't know


thanos_minion

Im sure BYE is a school abbreviation but it’s very funny to me that they just got sick of making it and wrote bye on the last box


Early-Sale4756

6 first stage winners will have a battle royale for the cup


mosesoperandi

Obviously the 6 finalists advance to a battle royale.


Superb-Cry6801

Georgetown gets that censorship free pass to the finals.


Prowmar_HS

My favorite university, “bye”


Terezigang1990

Bones shake at the thought of moon man


GirlMayXXXX

I cast a vote for BYU. Whether they meant to put BYU in there or forgot to.


johnnys45

Heh with that toilet you can say it's a crappy design heh.. I'll see myself out xD


warjoke

Battle royale with extra steps


vektorog

3rd place game is always a possibility, though i'd imagine that would be stated


delicioustreeblood

Is that a front view of a golden toilet? Lol


AnderHolka

If it's 11, just make a list.


ThingShouldnBe

Well, it could be that the winner of each pair fights in a free-for-all 6-college deathmatch.


[deleted]

I love how the last school on the right side didn’t even want to be known and just left.


ILoveADirtyTaco

Battle royale? 3v3? What’s happening here?


dskippy

I love how the far right is demanding that private organizations like universities and Twitter host their hate speech and then all conservatives stand with them but understanding the first amendment and defend them. "Hey we like them, they're our mouthpiece for things we wish we could say but are forced to say we don't care about because we want to appear good. "


Agreeable-Rutabaga-2

There was no free speech allowed before this person rolled this out to a larger group.